Maelstrom: Lair of the Tyrant

[grailkeeper]

Google's translation. 

Edited December 30, 2025 by grailkeeper

[Redcomet]

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

[Zoatibix]

1 minute ago, Redcomet said:

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

Yriel and more Corsairs??

 

The new CSM look ace, even in the grainy photos 

Okay, no more sugar for you!

[DeadFingers]

47 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said:

I have a feeling they'll try spinning the unLeaking as a New Years Day reveal. 

Might just bide their time until the 16th if the part about "sneak peeks" on the page of the Palm Springs Open turns out to be true.

[Borbarad]

2 hours ago, DeadFingers said:

Lemme give that last one a quick flipadip.

 

 

 

Well fellas, say hello to the Corsairs and the Corsairs.

 

Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but there appears to be an other Red Corsairs character at the right side of the picture?

 

Armenneus Valthex is still unaccounted for, and it would be a sill for Huron not to keep the guy who saved his life, somewhere close. 

 

Anyway, after Titus' retinue, i wonder if command squads are the new fad GW is going for in the 11th edition.

[01RTB01]

Can we see Armageddon too then whilst we're at it? :D

[Burni]

9 minutes ago, Borbarad said:

 

Anyway, after Titus' retinue, i wonder if command squads are the new fad GW is going for in the 11th edition.

Surprised it’s been this long coming after the Gobbapalooza set the standard a few years ago.

 

watch them do one for every faction except Guard, who are totally the most suited for a advisors or high command box. 

[Indy Techwisp]

6 minutes ago, Burni said:

watch them do one for every faction except Guard, who are totally the most suited for a advisors or high command box. 

 

Good thing they have 3 of them already then (tho one does need an update):

[Mr Farson]

7 minutes ago, Burni said:

Surprised it’s been this long coming after the Gobbapalooza set the standard a few years ago.

 

watch them do one for every faction except Guard, who are totally the most suited for a advisors or high command box. 

 

During third or 4th ed there was a WD rules article for a guard high command squad with various 0-whatever options on special advisors

[Lord Marshal]

8 minutes ago, Burni said:

Surprised it’s been this long coming after the Gobbapalooza set the standard a few years ago.

 

watch them do one for every faction except Guard, who are totally the most suited for a advisors or high command box. 

 

I'll never forgive them for giving literally nothing to the Guard during Fall of CADIA.

[sitnam]

5 minutes ago, Burni said:

watch them do one for every faction except Guard, who are totally the most suited for a advisors or high command box. 

 

To be fair, Guard already have command squads. 2 modern kits (Krieg/Cadian) and two old ones (Scions/Catachan). They even got the Minks Leak command squads earlier this year.

 

I'd love to see more command squads, especially for special character retinues. 

[DeadFingers]

27 minutes ago, Borbarad said:

 

Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but there appears to be an other Red Corsairs character at the right side of the picture?

 

Armenneus Valthex is still unaccounted for, and it would be a sill for Huron not to keep the guy who saved his life, somewhere close. 

 

Anyway, after Titus' retinue, i wonder if command squads are the new fad GW is going for in the 11th edition.

Probably the rumoured elite unit, and the rest of them are out of frame or harder to see in the mess of pixels.

Edited December 30, 2025 by DeadFingers

[nodnol88]

As someone already said, the article implies plural presumed-dead characters are returning. 
 

“…across the run-in books, there will be lots of characters you’ll know. Others will be entirely new. There may be some you thought long dead…”

 

I know it’s nitpicking semantics and it’s ambiguous enough that it may relate to one character, but who else could it be?

 

Yarrick is almost a given; I think all the short fiction releases from Grotmas undoubtedly relate to upcoming releases, but I don’t think it hinted at any other characters presumed dead. 

Most of the missing but inevitable Primarchs are not presumed dead, except maybe Dorn but I can’t see him returning until after a lot more of his brothers have been released. 
 

Generally though, the leaks look promising. I like the concept of different books for different war zones. It broadens the scope and allows them to shine a spot light on different areas of the galaxy without shoehorning characters into a loosely connected story (Arks of Omen). It also allows them to do follow ups down the years that instantly gives context to the conflict it references (500 World 2, 3, 4 etc, each with a different antagonist). 

[Chapter Master Valrak]

Vulkan ‘died’ on Armageddon…

[divad8]

1 hour ago, TheMawr said:

Is it just me seeing those on a phone but the jump pack corsairs don't look just similar to swooping hawks.. it looks like it's the swooping hawk kits with an upgrade sprue.

 

If that's the case.. there is an explanation of valraks old kill team source being convinced that swooping hawks would come in kill team ( this predated hivestorm and thus the move away from upgrade sprue kill teams )

 

Nope, they're different models.

[Orange Knight]

Aww man. So many cool model surprises ruined.

 

What camera exists in the world today that takes images this poor? Show me the camera lol

1 hour ago, SvenIronhand said:

So we can put that Berserker Surgeon 'rumor' to rest, right?

 

Praise be!

[TheMawr]

With this one having no subtitle I think its almost a given that 500 worlds will have a second book at least.. though I could see this being early 11th edition even, just to make sure the eyes aren't on blood angels for too long ;) ( it's possible I'm repeating myself as I dont always know wich typed post I posted and wich is still in limbo in a tab )

 

But yes I do like the different warzones approach. I like a moving narrative/evolving setting.. but I dont like an entire setting moving around a single narrative. Especially not a galactic setting.

 

Interestingly the Maelstrom leak seems to have no indication of including the already revealed models.. and that was the least unlogical place for tau, votan and tyranids, not to mention this book again has only 2 sides .. I still dare to wager a bet on it there is at least one unaccounted for book.

 

( I forgot to quote  @nodnol88)

[silverstu]

Looking forward to seeing better pics of Yriel and the vyper. Other rumoured characters could be the Red Terror, as it vanished from the Nid Codex, maybe Iyanna Arienal from Iyanden? Also trying to work out where the Votann, Tau and Nid characters they showed off will fit in with all these books as they don't seem to align with any.

[Jscarlos18]

32 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

With this one having no subtitle I think its almost a given that 500 worlds will have a second book at least.. though I could see this being early 11th edition even, just to make sure the eyes aren't on blood angels for too long ;) ( it's possible I'm repeating myself as I dont always know wich typed post I posted and wich is still in limbo in a tab )

I'm pretty sure the subtitle for Malestorm is the part that's on Jp/chinese. But Hive Mind please make it not true, because otherwise the SM bias is now getting absurd.

 

32 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

Interestingly the Maelstrom leak seems to have no indication of including the already revealed models.. and that was the least unlogical place for tau, votan and tyranids, not to mention this book again has only 2 sides .. I still dare to wager a bet on it there is at least one unaccounted for book.

Yeah, those three also getting models and their factions not being included in either campaign is pretty suspicious. Now would be the thing to see the other rumoured warzones and which they corresponds with.

Edited December 30, 2025 by Jscarlos18

[Marshal Mittens]

The new CSM look only slightly CSM and might make good traitors for late war 30k.

[Mogger351]

56 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

Aww man. So many cool model surprises ruined.

 

What camera exists in the world today that takes images this poor? Show me the camera lol

 

Praise be!

I sort of agree here but all but 1 item of their last preview os released and we're supposedly due 4 of these releases before 11th.

 

Logically 500 worlds must drop in Jan and likely be the Sunday article this week, as the content is in white dwarf and out before the book is.

 

If we follow that logic and that they dont want them back to back, we're looking at a release date of 500 worlds of 17th Jan maybe, which then means that if they want to have Huron release a month later, it has to be revealed by 17th Jan.

 

What I'm waffling about is that GW has created a back up of big ticket 40k narrative releases that will be sat in warehouses now worldwide because all 4 need to realistically be out by end of May. We then note the first isn't out yet and they have a 3 week run up to release. This leaves little room of maneuver and leaks are more likely - they need to get on with it bluntly as their hype cycle is empty.

[torcathmk2]

New Vyper?
 

[Bouargh]

19 minutes ago, torcathmk2 said:

New Vyper?
 

Or something close to a hornet maybe?

[ZeroWolf]

24 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

I sort of agree here but all but 1 item of their last preview os released and we're supposedly due 4 of these releases before 11th.

 

Logically 500 worlds must drop in Jan and likely be the Sunday article this week, as the content is in white dwarf and out before the book is.

 

If we follow that logic and that they dont want them back to back, we're looking at a release date of 500 worlds of 17th Jan maybe, which then means that if they want to have Huron release a month later, it has to be revealed by 17th Jan.

 

What I'm waffling about is that GW has created a back up of big ticket 40k narrative releases that will be sat in warehouses now worldwide because all 4 need to realistically be out by end of May. We then note the first isn't out yet and they have a 3 week run up to release. This leaves little room of maneuver and leaks are more likely - they need to get on with it bluntly as their hype cycle is empty.

They could have some extra time if 11th comes out in July like AoS/HH did

[Dr. Clock]

12 minutes ago, torcathmk2 said:

New Vyper?

Seems like a new kit certainly, wonder if it'll be a straight replacement for Vyper or something Corsair-specific since it doesn't seem to have any of the usual heavy weapon silhouettes there.

 

It's also behind the jump bois and (presumably) Yriel here: 

 

 

I'll buy 2, in any case...

 

Cheers,

 

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